for this Project I knew I wanted To create my own version of the Iconic Tamagotchi toy that had captivated the childhoods of those growing up in y2k.
I started by creating a rough idea of what I wanted the housing of the screen to look like and decided what better than to make my tamagotchi after the likeness of my Dog kwali.
After using my rough outline to create a 3d render in blender, I sent my file off to be printed on the 3d printer at my schools lab.
now that i had my form complete it was time to bring it to life. my goal was to use an OLED screen to display my dogs expressions. To accomplish this there were a few steps.
I needed to find a microcontroller small enough to fit into the housing with enough room for the wires to connect to the oled and buttons. this lead me to the adafruit trinket m0 , pictured above.
Lastly it was time to create my animations, this was my first time creating bitmaps for frame by frame animation and converting my images to code for arduino to read proved extremely challenging. However eventually I was able to get everything to communicate together and succeeded in creating my own tamagotchi (or in this case Kwaligotchi)